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Advisor toolkits

As a careers advisor, it's vitally important you know where to access high quality, sustainable, labour market information (LMI) so you can help people make informed choices about their futures.

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That’s why Creative Choices and the National Guidance Research Forum (NGRF) joined forces to produce these specially created toolkits.

There is an ever incresasing need for trusted careers advice across the creative footprint - by 2014, some 700,000 people are predicted to be working in the creative and cultural industries.

That's 700,000 people who could be asking your advice on careers in advertising, the arts, music, design, cultural heritage and crafts.

We are confident these documents will provide you with the information you need; the subjects for the toolkits were taken from a ‘wish list’ of information compiled from various consultations held by the NGRF with careers advisors like yourselves.

Related External Links

NGRF: Creative and Cultural Industries

Skills for Business Careers Portal

Sector Overview

Sectoral Employers (68 Kb)

Brief overview of employer data for the sectors.
Further Reading (30 Kb)

List of books used when researching the career advisor toolkits.
Sector Summary (32 Kb)

Brief outline of the sector including economic profile, equal opportunities and workforce data.
Cross-Sector Recruitment Difficulties (39 Kb)

Outlines the key trends affecting recruitment difficulties.

Economics

Economic Profile (57 Kb)

Quick overview of the economic profile of the arts, advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design and music industries.

Education and Training

Education and Training (136 Kb)

180,000 courses are available in creative and cultural subjects.
Barriers to Training (40 Kb)

Why can't some people get the training they need?
Qualifiation Level of the Workforce (51 Kb)

Qualification level of the workforce broken down into sectors.
Skills Gaps (53 Kb)

Table looking at skills gaps across the creative and cultural footprint.

Recruitment

Replacement Levels and Requirements (41 Kb)

Looking at employer demand and how staff will be replaced as the creative sector expands.

Occupational Information

Occupational Trends (84 Kb)

How many people will be working in the sector by 2014?
Future Drivers (32 Kb)

What does the future hold? This toolkit provides a few possible answers.
Occupational Information (36 Kb)

Occupational roles, salaries and opportunties.
Salaries (33 Kb)

Salary information on eight jobs plus contact details for further research.

Demographics and Diversity

North West Diversity Figures (22 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
Demographic Headlines (44 Kb)

Provides details on how many people work in each of the sectors, how much money comes in, whether they are freelance etc.
East Midlands Diversity Figures (24 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
South East Diversity Figures (23 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
East of England Diversity Figures (21 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
Northern Ireland Diversity Figures (22 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
London Diversity Figures (23 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
Scottish Diversity Figures (23 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
North East Diversity Figures (22 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.
South West Diversity Figures (25 Kb)

Regional diversity figures broken down into sub-sectors.

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